1. Overview of nursing process -- Nursing -- Phases of nursing process -- Qualities a nurse needs -- Nursing process and wellness -- Nursing process and community health -- Ethical and cultural considerations -- 2. Critical thinking -- Critical thinking attitudes -- Independent thinking -- Intellectual humility -- Intellectual courage -- Intellectual empathy -- Intellectual integrity -- Intellectual perseverance -- Intellectual curiosity -- Faith in reason -- Fair-mindedness -- Interest in exploring thoughts and feelings -- Critical thinking skills -- Using language -- Perceiving -- Believing and knowing -- Clarifying -- Comparing -- Judging and evaluating -- Reasoning -- Standards of reasoning -- Critical thinking and nursing process -- Critical thinking and nursing ethics -- 3. Assessment -- Learning outcomes -- Assessment : the first phase of the nursing process -- Collecting data -- Validating data -- Organizing data -- Recording data -- Special-purpose assessments -- Home care and functional assessment -- Cultural assessment -- Spiritual assessment -- Wellness assessment -- Family assessment -- Community assessment -- Ethical and legal considerations -- Honesty -- Confidentiality -- Malpractice suits -- 4. Diagnostic reasoning -- Learning outcomes -- Diagnosis : second phase of nursing process -- Human responses -- Diagnosing health status -- Identifying patient strengths -- Recognizing nursing diagnoses -- Wellness diagnoses -- Recognizing collaborative problems -- Recognizing medical diagnoses -- Computer-assisted diagnosis -- Using nursing diagnoses with critical pathways -- Critical thinking and diagnosis -- 5. Diagnostic language -- Learning outcomes -- Standardized nursing languages -- Classification systems -- Uniform nursing language -- Existing nursing taxonomies -- NANDA International -- Components of NANDA-I diagnosis -- Format for writing diagnostic statements -- Actual nursing diagnoses -- Potential (risk) nursing diagnoses -- Possible nursing diagnoses -- Wellness diagnoses (format) -- Collaborative problems -- Relationship of nursing diagnoses to outcomes and nursing orders -- Thinking critically about the content of diagnostic statements -- Wellness diagnoses -- Spiritual diagnoses -- Family and home health diagnoses -- Community health diagnoses -- Issues associated with NANDA-I classification -- Holistic perspective -- Ethical considerations -- Cultural considerations -- Recording nursing diagnoses -- Prioritizing diagnoses -- Preservation of life -- Maslow' hierarchy -- Patient preference.
6. Planning : overview & outcomes -- Overview of planning : third and fourth phases of nursing process -- Patient plans of care -- Planning outcomes -- Writing outcome statements -- The nursing outcomes classification -- Family and home health outcomes -- Community outcomes -- Goals/outcomes for wellness diagnoses -- Patient teaching goals/outcomes -- Critical thinking : reflecting on planning -- Ethical considerations in planning -- Legal issues in planning -- Spiritual planning and outcomes -- Cultural considerations in planning -- 7. Planning : interventions -- Nursing interventions -- Theory-based planning -- Nursing interventions and problem status -- How to generate and select nursing activities and interventions -- Electronic care planning -- Writing nursing orders -- Standardized language for nursing interventions -- The Nursing Interventions Classification System -- Community nursing interventions -- Family and home health interventions -- Formal teaching plans -- Wellness interventions -- Spiritual interventions -- Thinking critically about planning -- Interventions -- Ethical factors -- Cultural factors -- 8. Implementation -- Healthcare delivery systems -- Preparing the nurse -- Preparing the patient -- Preparing supplies and equipment -- Action : doing or delegating -- Teaching self-care -- Delegation and supervision -- Thinking critically about implementation -- Recording -- Client records -- Documenting nursing process -- Documentation methods -- Narrative, chronological charting -- SOAP charting -- PIE charting -- PART charting -- Focus charting -- Charting by exception -- IPOCs : charting integrated into the plan of care -- Electronic documentation -- Documenting with standardized language -- Guidelines for charting -- Home healthcare documentation -- Long-term care documentation -- Oral reports -- Standardized formats -- SBAR -- PACE -- Ethical issues in implementation -- Respect for dignity -- Privacy and confidentiality -- Legal considerations -- Falls -- Restraints -- Questioning medical orders -- Patient behaviors -- Cultural care -- Spiritual care -- 9. Evaluation -- General characteristics of evaluation -- Evaluation in nursing process -- Evaluating patient progress -- Evaluating and revising the plan of care -- Reflecting critically about evaluation -- Quality assurance and quality improvement -- Electronic health records and standardized nursing languages -- 10. Creating a care plan -- Comprehensive plans of care -- Standardized approaches to care planning -- Critical pathways -- Unit standards of care -- Model (standardized) care plans -- Protocols -- Policies and procedures -- Electronic care plans and standardized language -- Care-planning guide -- Creating a comprehensive plan of care -- How to mind map a plan of care -- Wellness in the acute-care setting -- Ethical considerations.
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